Elizabeth Garrison
Contact details
+44 7709623580
Milan
Lombardy
Italy
Lombardy
Italy
Professional profile
Activities
Editing
Translating
Content writing
Translating
Content writing
Language pairs
Catalan > English
Italian > English
Spanish > English
Italian > English
Spanish > English
Areas of expertise
EU
Food and Drink
Tourism
Food and Drink
Tourism
Qualifications and experience
With 16+ years' experience in the translation industry and clients ranging from Michelin-starred restaurants to the European Commission, I approach my translation work with a mixture of passion and precision; I am committed to getting every word right, and to creating translations that read like the original, adapted appropriate for the target audience in question. My speciality areas include wine and food, travel and tourism and business.
Continuing professional development
METMs
METM13, METM14, METM15, METM16, METM17, METM18, METM19, METM Revisited, METM21 Online, METM22, METM23, METM24
Workshops
- Corpus guidance: a tool for understanding professional language usage, change, and variety
- The comma, false friends and transcreation (MET medley, Milan 2018)
- Wine words – translating in the wine world
- Tips and tools from the Hive, cutting out source-language interference, is full post-editing a pipe dream? (MET medley, Nantes 2019)
- Human nutrition and climate change: a knowledge update for language professionals
- Editing humanities and social science texts: theory and practice
- Delving into GenAI as a resource for language professionals
- Speaking a brand’s language: a deep dive into verbal identity
- Translating art from Spanish
- Grammar pathway minisession: subject–verb agreement
- Singular ‘they’: honourable usage or a sign of grammatical incompetence?
- Tagging along: dangling participles, adverbial disjuncts and other hangers-on
- Two aspects of information ordering that affect flow within sentences and beyond
- Signposting the way: using punctuation to improve flow
- Translating contracts
- Relatives: the clause type — and why people still argue about 'which'
- The comma: to pause or to parse?
- Beat the agencies at their own game: develop a watertight translation workflow process
- Translating for the art world
- Translation revision and beyond
- Dealing with parentheses: commas, brackets and dashes
- Cooking up the right words: hints, tips and tricks for successful food translation
- Incorporating gender-inclusive language into our work
- Translation editing for the humanities – music and movements
Other
2025: Italian Sommelier Association (AIS) Level 2 course; Vinitaly
2024: AIS Monza study trip to Campania; Paestum Wine Fest; Vinitaly
2023: AIS mini-courses; Vinitaly; Fermento Milano
2022: AIS Level 1 course; Vinitaly
2021: Vinitaly Special Edition; Italian Wine Scholar Unit 2; Fermento Milano
